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Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...Open University, the focus of which are teacher education. As a beginning teacher you will almost certainly be preoccupied with survival – planning lessons, classroom management, marking work and meeting targets set for you and your school. Learning to be a teacher involves developing your own teaching personality, which enables you to be the sort of teacher that you...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...open and aware, conscious of inner thoughts and feelings, and how these may drive behaviours that lead to being ‘stuck’. Commitment The ‘C’ (commitment) is choosing (being active) to move in the direction of your values: choosing behaviours that reflect the things that matter the most to you, for the way you want to live and work. See below for more on values and...
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Article 10 mins
What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...education bursaries for students who are carers. Check out the websites of your local colleges or universities. • The Open University provides scholarships for carers, including young adult carers, to obtain university qualifications: Carers' Scholarships Fund | Funding | The Open University • Find out if there are youth or employability organisations in your area or...
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Article 5 mins
Climate change and the importance of COP26
Nature & Environment

Climate change and the importance of COP26

...Open University both teaches about and does research relevant to climate change. It has more than seven thousand staff and nearly 200,000 students who will be affected by climate change, let alone the millions of learners using OpenLearn. This climate change page brings together existing OpenLearn content that is directly relevant to climate change which you can study but...
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Article 5 mins
The Arts and Creativity
Education & Development

The Arts and Creativity

...Open University's Art History courses and qualifications. I’m a Senior Manager in the Access, Open and Cross-curricular Innovation team and my favourite aspect about the YXM130 module is that you can use short courses that you have already studied to count towards the module - what a win! When studying this module, you can also continue to explore a range of themes and...
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Article 5 mins
Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes
History & The Arts

Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes

...Open University's History courses and qualifications. This is the remarkable story of the Benin Bronzes, beautiful artworks in their own right, but also artefacts of cultural significance to the West African kingdom that produced them. Join retired Open University associate lecturer Linda Buckley, as she explores the history behind these objects. [Benin Bronzes head...
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Video 30 mins
Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...Open Internet Order, policymakers must ensure we all benefit – not just a select few companies or industries. They must treat the internet as a public resource and a public trust whose security and stability are not to be subverted to the service of private special interests. As customers and users, when evaluating new technologies, systems, products and services, we...
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Article 5 mins
Daisy Main
Miscellaneous

Daisy Main

...Open University, and she continues to use it for study, and fun!...[Daisy standing in a Chinese style garden ]‘OpenLearn has enriched my life,’ Daisy explained. ‘The vast array of free resources means that there truly is something for everyone. My favourite part is that each time I log in, there’s always new content that catches my eye! Each course has made a...
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Article 5 mins